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There is something innately human about cherishing one's deepest
desires while knowing that they are impossible. Part of the model
in this work is also the folly that a flute - the instrument
itself - might harbour its own secret wishes. In a universe where
all is possible, what might a flute dream?

The work uses one of my preferred architectures: a single
movement with three sections in the classic form
moderate-slow-fast. Although the solo line is unashamedly
virtuosic, the intention is not to dazzle but to explore as much
dreaminess as possible, filtered through the wilfulness of a
metal pipe which believes it has no limits. There is no specific
consideration in this music of the opium pipe, from which the
term pipe dream originates.